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solving the dispute over origins of coral reef formations
South Pacific coral reef island formations have intrigued geologists: Fringing reefs, like Tahiti, have a shelf growing close to the island’s shore. Barrier reefs, like Bora Bora, are separated from the main island by a calm lagoon. An atoll displays as a ring of coral enclosing a lagoon with no center island. How reefs develop [...]
Clean, pure saltwater is crucial to everything in your marine aquarium. Many problems are avoided by starting out with the correct type of water you use to make your salt water and by and properly mixing saltwater. The water from your tap contains much more than water; what it contains varies with its source. Well [...]
Lionfish invasion a parasite study opportunity
At the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute in Panama, Andrew Sellers of the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute is turning the lionfish invasion into an opportunity to study which Atlantic parasites are adopting the lionfish as a host. Believed to have been dumped into the Atlantic off southern Florida sometime around the late 1980s, this invasive is [...]
Test Kit Instructions
Missing, misplaced, or can’t read the set of instructions for your aquarium test kits? Test Kit Instruction Library to find yours!
Sea Monsters Revealed
An exhibition of the world’s largest plastinated sea creatures opens at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. If you are familiar with the ‘Bodies Revealed’ exhibitions (human bodies and organs done with polymer preservation technique) the same technique has been applied to a variety of sea creatures. See the insides and outsides of 18 [...]
Isolated reefs regrow after bleaching
It appears that isolated reefs can bounce back from a serious event even when there is no neighboring reef to provide seed material. Researchers noted that after suffered bleaching in 1998, Scott Reef (in Australia) corals have grown back fine despite being over 250 kilometers from other reefs. It had been thought that recovery was [...]
Aerosols slow coral growth
New research published in Nature Geoscience demonstrates a clear link between fine particle pollution (aerosols) and coral growth rates. When released into the atmosphere by either volcanic eruptions or burning coal, they reflect incoming sunlight and shade the Earth – ‘global dimming’. The decrease limits needed sunlight and cools the surrounding waters upsetting the balance [...]